罗拉拉，笔名肖林，知名媒体人、资深昆迷、南京市文联签约作家。已出版随笔集《像蝶一样的碟》（江苏文艺出版社）、《旋转木马》（古吴轩出版社）与艺术文论《怕——柯军多元艺术探索》（中国戏剧出版社）等多部图书，担任过央视与江苏卫视合拍的大型纪录片《昆曲六百年》（荣获金鹰奖、星光奖等）的分集撰稿。

《遗忘海——跨界艺术笔记》集结了罗拉拉近十年来的对文化艺术界人物的采访笔记、人物素描、艺术批评及生活随笔数十篇，分“人物白描”、“文艺评论”、“昆曲笔记”、“私密空间”四大类，谈论文学、绘画、戏剧、影视、建筑乃至生活方式等种种，涉及的文化人物有导演李安、田壮壮、荣念曾、贾樟柯、林奕华；作家白先勇、木心、苏童、叶兆言、毕飞宇、朱苏进、韩东、鲁敏、葛亮；艺术家陈丹青、张晓刚、毛焰、范杨、徐累、汤国、喻慧、姚媛、张继青、柯军；设计师朱赢椿、速泰熙、赵清、陈卫新等，作者以知识女性敏锐的感知，新颖独特的视角白描文化人物、评点文艺作品与文化现象、讲述十年来醉心昆曲传播的经历，亦配有作者个人情感世界的真实记录。

本书还佐以罗拉拉本人的绘画小品，以“原汤化原汁”的自然嵌入彰显文集个性特色。特约已斩获多项国际书籍设计大奖的平面设计师赵清倾情设计。此书已获2014年“中国最美的书“大奖。

Forgotten Sea—Straddling Art Notes（author Luo Lala） contains dozens of cultural arts figures interview notes, character sketches, art criticism and essays over the author’s past decade. The book is divided into four parts: "character line drawing", "literary criticism" "Kunqu Notes" and "private space", talking about literature, painting, theater, film, architecture and the lifestyle and various, involving cultural figures such as directors Ang Lee, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Rong Nianzeng, Jia Zhangke, Lin Yihua; writers Bai Xianyong, Mu Xin, Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, Bi Feiyu, Zhu Sujin, Han Dong, Lu Min, Ge Liang; artists Chen Danqing, Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Yan, Fan Yang, Xu Lei, Tang Guo, Yu Hui, Yao Yuan, Zhang Jiqing, Ke Jun; designers Zhu Yingchun, Zhao Qing, Chen Weixin. From her female keen perception, the author uses an innovative and unique cultural perspective to line drawing characters, to comment literary works and cultural phenomena, to narrate her past ten years’ experience of Qunqu broadcast, but also with the true stories of her personal emotional life.

The book is also accompanied by Luo Lala’s sketch paintings, naturally highlights her personality characteristics. Zhao Qing, a well-known graphic designer, who has won a number of international book design awards, designed this book which has won the Award of the Most Beautiful Book in China in 2014.